Pitch Drop Over Years

[Marcel Carey]

This is when I say Thank God for ETDs.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC


----- Original Message ----- 
There was a recent tread on how much a piano will drop in pitch over the
years. This afternoon I have an appointment to tune a piano the owner
bought new 28 years ago, and she knows for a fact (or at least that what
she says) that it has never been tuned. I'll report back.

Terry Farrell
1978 Kimball spinet. Her parents bought it for her new when she was a
kid. She has owned it for 20 years. She knows it has not been tuned in
the past 20 years. She thinks that her parents had not had it tuned in
the first eight years either, but was not sure. From the way it sounded,
my guess is that they had not had it tuned!

Bass was 80 cents flat. Tenor was 100 cents flat. Treble ranged from 130
to 180 cents flat.

Two pitch raises and a "fine" tuning (as y'all know, one doesn't fine
tune an instrument like this!).
Terry Farrell